Silvia Arroyo camejo
Silvia Arroyo Camejo (born January 3, 1986 in Berlin ) is a Spanish-German physicist and science author.
Life
Arroyo Camejo - daughter of a Spanish vascular surgeon and a German language teacher - attended the Canisius College in Berlin , a Jesuit grammar school in Berlin-Tiergarten, and graduated from high school in 2005 with advanced courses in physics and chemistry. She started writing a book on quantum physics at the age of seventeen . The book was published in 2006 by the science publisher Springer under the title Skurrile Quantenwelt . The author was awarded for outstanding achievements in physics in 2004 Student Award Berlin of the Physical Society of Berlin e. V. (PGzB) and in 2005 the book prize of the German Physical Society .
In addition to studying physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin , she worked as a student assistant at the Hahn Meitner Institute in Berlin in the Solar Energy Department . She completed her bachelor thesis in the field of experimental quantum optics in Oliver Benson's group "Nano-Optics" at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2009 she visited Vladan Vuletic's experimental atomic physics group at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms as a visiting student . From 2009 to 2012 she studied in the master’s program at the University of Vienna and since 2012 has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in the NanoBiophotonics department of Stefan Hell on her dissertation, which she completed in December 2015.
Quirky quantum world
Quirky Quantum World is her first book on quantum physics, published in 2006. At first it was only supposed to be a check for herself whether she had understood the many books on quantum physics that she had already started to read at the age of fourteen, but in the end it became a book of her own. She sought to bridge the gap between formula-free popular science literature and study literature, while not using advanced mathematics to make the book understandable for both students and laypeople.
The book explains various historically significant experiments in quantum mechanics such as the double slit experiment and the photoelectric effect and illustrates the fundamentality of the wave-particle dualism in quantum mechanics. In addition, modern experiments and the resulting physical conceptions of the world are discussed, such as the question of the existence of hidden variables and the completeness of the quantum mechanical description. Furthermore, advanced theories such as quantum gravity are discussed at the end of the book .
Bizarre Quantum World was originally published by Springer Verlag and was on the Spiegel bestseller list for non-fiction books for several weeks. Translations into Italian, Greek, Vietnamese and Japanese followed in 2008.
Publications
- Quirky quantum world. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 3-540-29720-0 and Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17489-8 .
- with Marie-Pierre Adam, Mondher Besbes, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Vincent Jacques, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Jean-François Roch, Stefan Hell, François Treussart: Stimulated Emission Depletion Microscopy Resolves Individual Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Nanocrystals. In: ACS Nano . 7, 2013, pp. 10912-10919, doi: 10.1021 / nn404421b .
- with Andrii Lazariev, Stefan Hell, Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian: Room temperature high-fidelity holonomic single-qubit gate on a solid-state spin . In: Nature Communications. 5, 2014, no.4870.
- Quantum information, quantum sensing, and super-resolution microscopy with nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Dissertation, Heidelberg 2015, DNB 1082145904 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Silvia Arroyo Camejo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personnel page at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
- Quirky quantum world on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ↑ Spiegel bestseller list . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 2006 ( online ). as an an example
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SURNAME | Arroyo Camejo, Silvia |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German science author |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |